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II. Prophecies about Judah chs. 2--45 >
D. Incidents surrounding the fall of Jerusalem chs. 34-45 >
2. Incidents during the fall of Jerusalem chs. 37-39 >
Zedekiah's prayer request and its answer 37:1-10 >
The Lord's message to Zedekiah 37:6-10
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37:6-7 The Lord told Jeremiah to tell Zedekiah that the Egyptian army, which had come to help him, would return home. It did, in fact, retreat before joining battle.
37:8 The Babylonians would return, besiege, capture, and burn Jerusalem.
37:9-10 Zedekiah should not deceive himself by thinking that the Chaldeans had departed from Jerusalem permanently. Jerusalem's destruction was so certain that even if the Judeans defeated the entire Babylonian army the Lord would use the wounded Chaldean soldiers to rise up and destroy the city. In other words, deliverance was out of the question.
